winexe for MACOS?

[omairnabiel]

Looking at the lib code couldn't find anything for macos. Are there any workarounds for it to work on macos (Catalina)?

[NetBUG]

Hi @omairnabiel ,
The library was intended to be run from shared servers in the infrastructure which typically operate Debian or CentOS.

I had success ~2 years ago building Winexe (https://sourceforge.net/projects/winexe/) under OS X 10.14. It required Samba4 source package and some patches, but ultimately we decided that the portability was not the main feature for it.

I would suggest you using Docker and use full image (i.e. not Alpine) as the first layer, as they are Debian based. I would be glad to see your PR if you succeed with it
If not, I can have a look next week

[omairnabiel]

Hi @NetBUG

As a workaround I ran my app (which uses winexe) in a Docker container with the full image and it works fine.

I tried experimenting a bit. The best I could do, Installed winexe using homebrew, then picked the binary file, put it in the bin folder of winexe and then added

if (process.platform == 'darwin') {
this.winexe = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'bin', 'winexe_mac'); // binary I downloaded from Homebrew
}

The problem this didn't work was winexe itself. It didn't even work if I used winexe directly from terminal, so I had to switch to locally using docker for development.

[omairnabiel]

@NetBUG Any luck?